What Games Do You Suck At?

[Warped]

Plain and simple, what video games are you horrible at? Everyone has some they just will not master or get much better at

I really suck at fighting games, mainly because I can't remember half the combos because my memory is shot so Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, you name it, I may even enjoy playing it, but I'll lose almost every damn time unless I find a combo that is unbreakable or annoying as hell.

Bit.Trip BEAT I am horrible at. Can't even get past the 3rd stage on easy, my reflexes suck these days. If I was 14 again I'd probably be very good but games like this stress me out.
Cogs: Puzzle games like this also stress me out. I'm not really good with motors but oh well

so what are some games you're really bad at and why?

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

puzzlers altogether, that's why I'm bitter about Portal 2

derp

 

[Acepilotf14]

Fighting games. Only thing I'm completely inept at.

Other genres I can build up a skill with in time, but fighters no matter how much I play I can never get good at.

 

[Paulaner]

First Person Shooters. I just can't aim.

 

[knut]

FIFA/NHL/NFL/any sport game that puts you in controller of all the players trying to chase a tiny ball/puck around a screen.

other than that, with practice i'll topple any learning curve eventually, but i don't think i'll ever get into something like FIFA. i guess it's mostly out of sheer boredom for the most part, though.

 

[sixteenth]

Starcraft.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Real time strategies. I just feel constantly under pressure when I'm playing them, so much so that I can't really enjoy myself.

 

[Vegeta897]

Real time strategies. I just feel constantly under pressure when I'm playing them, so much so that I can't really enjoy myself.

Yeah, RTSs are always tough until you practice a lot. Rise of Nations is pretty much the only one I'm halfway decent at. I know what you mean when you say it's hard to enjoy yourself. It is quite stressful. But once you gain a significant upper hand it's kind of enjoyable to feel a secure position of power over your opponent. It's rewarding in that way.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I'm trying to get good at Starcraft, but I admit it's a mental shortfall for me. I'm too distractable, and if I'm fighting I forget about production and vice-versa. Also I'm finding again that I'm pretty terrible at Portal. I complete the puzzles, but not before feeling really REALLY stupid first.

 

[Escaep]

Fighting games. Can never learn combos and stuff so I end up pressing the same buttons over and over again because it is the only move I know. I think out of the 100 Super Mash Brothers games I've played with hall mates this year I've honestly one won one game.

 

[Warped]

Yeah, RTSs are always tough until you practice a lot. Rise of Nations is pretty much the only one I'm halfway decent at. I know what you mean when you say it's hard to enjoy yourself. It is quite stressful. But once you gain a significant upper hand it's kind of enjoyable to feel a secure position of power over your opponent. It's rewarding in that way.

I was the same way when it came to Age of Empires, I used to master that game. But over time I stopped playing RTS's. Best moment I can remember was playing Battle For Middle Earth against both my friend and his son. They tried for an hour to take me down then finally I slowly lost. It felt amazing to sweat them out that long. Had I had more caffeine with me I would have stayed on top but it was really fun to fend off two people. My base was humongous too. I also suck at Starcraft though. It also was bad because the game was great when I bought it recently then some glitch made the game only appear in a quarter of the screen so I couldn't play it anymore. Same thing with Starcraft2 I suck at it. Online I do better than singleplayer because I can build any units I want and when we have a good team going you can master some nice techniques. Plus it pays to watch the best in the world and see how they do things.

 

[YROC]

RTSs all day long. I like to play them but i'm not a great player.

 

[Vegeta897]

Let's all team up and take on a Hard computer!

 

[Krynn72]

I suck at racing games and fighting games. RTS games I'm fine at against AI opponents, even on hard difficulty settings, but I hate playing against real people because theres never any fluff to it, its all math and rock paper scissors equations. So I suck at multiplayer RTS games, but its a self inflicted suckage, since if I do play, i try to play realistically, which means I get destroyed by people who power-game it.

 

[15357]

RTSs that require you to greatly multitask. Macro-micro is fine, but when games start requiring you to do things that should have been done automatically, then it becomes hard. I mean, I normally micro or macro fairly well, but never both at the same time.

 

[Acepilotf14]

RTSs that require you to greatly multitask. Macro-micro is fine, but when games start requiring you to do things that should have been done automatically, then it becomes hard. I mean, I normally micro or macro fairly well, but never both at the same time.

Bullshit, you're Korean. This is in your blood.

 

[Stigmata]

Bullshit fighting games based on combos rather than clean, pure-tactics player-to-character input.

Pretty much any RTS that involves more than watching my army fight another (see: all of them). It's too much stress and flat-out work to learn hotkeys, ideal unit compositions, resource gather rates, timing-push windows, proper macro, proper micro... all without feeling for more than about five seconds per match that I'm playing a game and having fun.

Also Portal.

 

[morgs]

Starcraft II, I just cannot be bothered thinking that much at that pace.

 

[Thunderclap]

Add me to the RTS crowd. I'm actually a competent Total War player, but I am truly terrible at Company of Heroes. Somehow I still really like the game. I often watch replays posted online so I can just enjoy the actual combat without worrying about strategy.

 

[Stigmata]

I couldn't even beat Omaha Beach in singleplayer. Company of draft-dodgers and flat-footers.

 

[Moto]

Sports games, fighting games, RTSs, and RPGs.

 

[Thunderclap]

I hated Omaha Beach! The whole appeal of that battle in games like the Medal of Honor series was the complete breakdown in command, how it was every man for himself and it was individual heroes that won the day, not grand strategy... so when you are made the commanding officer, you are forced to watch all your men being butchered left and right and praying that a handful can make it to the shingle. What makes it a great FPS level makes it an awful RTS level.

 

[Viperidae]

I hate playing against real people because theres never any fluff to it, its all math and rock paper scissors equations.

Pre-Opposing Fronts Vanilla CoH would like to have a word with you.

I'm OK at RTS, but pretty ****ing bad at Starcraft.

Fighting games: if I practice a shitton at one character, I'm decent. If not, I'm terrible. And I think it's a racial thing too. Any of my Asian friends can pick up a controller on a fighting game we've both never played and they'll win 9 times out of 10. It's not even button mashing. They just simply think like fighters or something.

Also, you're all technically bad at MOBAs because none of you play them. Took me about 1000 matches (currently at 1850 matches and counting... oh god I need a life) to get really good at them.

 

[PorkPi]

Strategy games, real or otherwise. Usual tactic (only against AI) is: build 5,000,000 tanks, throw at enemy, repeat.
Tried playing against humans a couple times. Didn't go too well.

 

[Maestro]

I don't really have any games I am bad at, per se, but I also have never in my life played a sports game. I haven't played fighting games besides Super Smash Bros with friends occasionally. The two RTSs I've played at MechCommander 2, which I was mediocre at, and AoE II, which was fun but I never played much.

 

[Sheepo]

I'm pretty bad at most, really. I mean, there are games I love and am excellent at, but if you just gave me a FIGHTER GAME or a RACING GAME or a STRATEGY GAME or an ADVENTURE GAME or a SHOOTING GAME or a PUZZLE GAME, I'll probably be inferior to pretty much any average gamer. Hmmm, I give the implication that I'm good at specific games in all those genres, but I'm actually not. I am literally good at no adventure or strategy games. Zero.

 

[Darkside55]

I suck at strategy games. Also, not strictly strategy, but games like Dota, HoN, LoL. I had to bitch out of my company's weekly LoL games because I was sucking up the joint. I think it's because one of the genres I excel at is fighting games, and those "champion"-style games run counter to things I learned from fighting games. For example: pressuring enemy, he has low health, fighting game-wired brain says keep pressure on, NOPE SHOULD'VE JUST LET HIM GO NOW I'M SCREWED.

I am also terrible at racing games.

Oh, and "band" games. I'm bad at those. Just awful.

 

[Viperidae]

my company's weekly LoL games

Every post you make, I die a little more of envy.

Also, those are MOBAs. Technically a subset of strategy games. See? No one even knows the genre! But uh, depends on the context, Darky. You generally want to bleed your opponent of gold so keeping him low without killing him can be beneficial, but generally killing him will benefit you more in the early game. Unless, you know, you're tower diving to do it. Or getting horribly out of position. My point is, it's not unlike fighters in that killing opponents is good, but more that you're risking danger by closing in for a kill.

 

[Dinnesch]

RTS games where you have an enemy. Although I'm pretty good at simpler(without a real opponent) games such as Defense Grid and Tropico 3(after the ridiculous learning curve) i just don't get the hint in like World in Conflict or Starcraft.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'd say I probably suck at Dragon Age Origins. I played on easy mode and still had hard times, well mostly in the first 1/4 of the game. Fighting the undead was pure hell.

 

[Gargantou]

Fighters, RTSs and old-school puzzle-heavy adventure games.

Also, just to clarify, by RTSs I mean those in the style of for example Starcraft where there is little AI autonomy for your units, at least there seemed to be little.

RTTs such as the Close Combat series, Theatre of War and Total War series I am actually pretty decent and maybe even good at.

 

[Darkside55]

Also, those are MOBAs. Technically a subset of strategy games. See? No one even knows the genre! But uh, depends on the context, Darky. You generally want to bleed your opponent of gold so keeping him low without killing him can be beneficial, but generally killing him will benefit you more in the early game. Unless, you know, you're tower diving to do it. Or getting horribly out of position. My point is, it's not unlike fighters in that killing opponents is good, but more that you're risking danger by closing in for a kill.

That's the thing, closing in. I'm a shark with that sort of thing...blood in the water, and all. "That guy's got a sliver of health left! Rocket jump over to him and start pounding!" Nope, dead. I overcommit a lot.

 

[Eejit]

Racing games and RTS in multiplayer. **** all that optimal micro shit that's not a game, games are meant to be fun.

 

[Paulaner]

RTS in multiplayer. **** all that optimal micro shit that's not a game, games are meant to be fun.

Agreed.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah, RTSs are always tough until you practice a lot. Rise of Nations is pretty much the only one I'm halfway decent at. I know what you mean when you say it's hard to enjoy yourself. It is quite stressful. But once you gain a significant upper hand it's kind of enjoyable to feel a secure position of power over your opponent. It's rewarding in that way.

Yeah, the payoff is great if you happen upon a winning strategy, but I'm easily frustrated in general so games with prolonged matches just do my head in.

Pre-Opposing Fronts Vanilla CoH would like to have a word with you.

This was great actually, about the only time I've had lots of fun playing an RTS competitively. Had a bunch of LAN matches with a friend who was far more in strategy games than myself. He would always play axis, which ****ed me right up until I learned some effective counters/build orders. The thing I loved about the game was how intuitive it was - the building/resource management aspect was stripped down enough that I could experiment without having to worry about when specifically to buy the armor upgrade for such and such unit or some other horribly specific thing. I basically learned everything on my own through repeat playing, right down to unit maneuvers like how best to retreat from AT as a tank, or how to out-flank that early axis tank with a Sherman. So yeah, more like that, please.

 

[Gargantou]

Personally, my favourite RTS(Not sure if I should call it RTS or RTT) that I've been pretty good at is World in Conflict.

 

[Dynasty]

Fighting games is one genre I just cant win in, for the same reason I fail at Starcraft and Starcraft 2 online; I cant process quick enough and react in time.

WHich I find really weird, because Im really pretty damn good at racing games. F1 2010 lately, I love playing online and going through the qualifying before a race, which is all pointless as people slam into you on the first corner if you're in pole as they know they cant beat you if you're out ahead. Quick racing like that for some reason I'm really good at, just hearing people sigh in disbelief when I shred 4 seconds off their best lap time is an awesome feeling.

But put me in Starcraft 2 and I just want to rage quit due to my lack of knowledge and inability to macro. Just simple things like setting waypoints for new units, where to place structures, seeing what the other player has/has coming and then deploying the necessary counter (especially counters, I just cant think what unit counters another quick enough, by then it's too late anyway), combine that with the constant need to scout and my brain just screams ''Haha! Yeah right! I can give you porn, that's about it at the moment, I'm at full capacity.''

 

[StarBob]

Fighting games definitely. Relative to my skill in other games... it's probably like watching an toddler try to solve calculus. My timing is off, I can't time remember move lists, and when I finally get a move I remember, I can't execute it... or I execute it when it is not effective at all. I don't even know why I bother with them outside of the fact that I think Mortal Kombat is awesome. Luckily Mortal Kombat is one of the more simple fighting games. I actually bought Virtua Fighter 4 a long time ago and I played for hours never getting any better.

I don't think I'm that great at RTS games, but I don't think I suck. If I play them enough I get better... unlike fighting games.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I try my ass off not to suck at fighting games because my friends are so good at them. It'd have been on my list if I hadn't practiced so much just to play at a par level with my buddies. Soul Calibur and Street Fighter mostly.

 

[Gargantou]

Question: What do you classify proper boxing games such as the Fight Night games as, or the UFC series and such?

Because I am quite good at them, and they are about fighting.